Flattery gets favour. [ Proverb ]
Kissing goes by favour. [ Proverb ]
Favour and gifts disturb justice. [ Danish Proverb ]
A favour ill-placed is profusion. [ Proverb ]
One favour qualifies for another. [ Proverb ]
The king's favour is no inheritance. [ Proverb ]
To favour the ill, is to injure the good. [ Proverb ]
To accept a favour is to forfeit liberty. [ Laber ]
A work of real merit finds favour at last. [ A. B. Alcott ]
Riches and favour go before wisdom and art. [ Danish Proverb ]
O what a world of vile ill-favour'd faults
Looks handsome in three hundred pounds a year! [ William Shakespeare, Merry Wives of Windsor ]
It is a sort of a favour to be denied at first. [ Proverb ]
Not a man, for being simply man,
Hath any honour, but honour for those honours
That are without him, as place, riches, favour,
Prizes of accident, as oft as merit. [ William Shakespeare, Troilus and Cressida ]
Favour with words of good omen (by your tongues). [ Ovid ]
He that praises bestows a favour, he that detracts commits a robbery. [ Proverb ]
Without favour none will know you, and with it you will not know yourself. [ English Proverb, collected by George Herbert ]
Where you confer a benefit on those worthy of it, you confer a favour on all. [ Publius Syrus ]
The favour of great men, and praise of the world, are not much to be relied on. [ Proverb ]
There is no conferring a favour (involving obligation) on a man against his will. [ Law Max ]
To a well-deserving man God will show favour, to an ill-deserving He will be simply just. [ Plaut ]
A favour does not consist in the service done, but in the spirit of the man who confers it. [ Seneca ]
Petitioners for admittance into favour must not harass the condescension of their benefactor. [ Burns ]
Favour is deceitful, and beauty is vain: but a woman that feareth the Lord, she shall be praised. [ Bible ]
The wise man can dispense with the favour of the mighty, but not the mighty man with the wisdom of the wise. [ Bodenstedt ]
Every man willingly gives value to the praise which he receives, and considers the sentence passed in his favour as the sentence of discernment. [ Johnson ]
Since not only judgments have their awards, but mercies their commissions, snatch not at every favour, nor think thyself passed by if they fall upon thy neighbour. [ Sir T. Browne ]
Prosperity is the blessing of the Old Testament; adversity is the blessing of the New, which carrieth the greater benediction and the clearer revelation of God's favour. [ Bacon ]
There are few who, either by extraordinary endowment or favour of fortune, have enjoyed the opportunity of deciding what mode of life in especial they would wish to embrace. [ Cicero ]